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7 ex-CFA officials to face bribery charges
The seven detained former
officials from the Chinese
Football Association (CFA) will
stand trial early next year, said
Monday's Soccer News, after a
year-long sweeping probe into
Chinese football's gambling and
match-fixing.: By Liu Shanshan
(chinadaily.com.cn)
All seven sacked officials - ex-
CFA head Xie Yalong, his
successor Nan Yong and Nan's
deputy Yang Yimin, former
national team manager Wei
Shaohui, ex-CFA referee heads Li
Dongsheng and Zhang Jianqiang,
and former football league
official Fan Guangming - will face
charges of bribery, according to
the Guangzhou-based football
newspaper.
The three top officials, Xie
Yalong, Nan Yong and Yang
Yimin, will be prosecuted for an
additional crime of dereliction of
duty because of their special
executive posts in the Chinese
Football Administrative Center,
while Fan will also face a charge
of gambling.
According to the newspaper,
more than 10 kilograms of
evidence, including copies and
conversation records, have been
collected for upcoming court
hearings to be opened in the
Tieling City Procuratorate,
Northeast China's Liaoning
province.
However, the allegation of
match-fixing, or manipulating the
outcome of matches, cannot be
prosecuted as no Chinese law
ever defined it as a crime.
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